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1. In "Storm Front", Billy Joel sings, "We've got the cumulonimbus and a possible gale/ We've got a force nine blowing on the Beaufort scale." What is the highest force on the Beaufort scale?
2. In the same song, the backup singers sing two words: "mood indigo". What jazz great had a hit by the same name?
3. In Paul Hardcastle's haunting spoken-word hit "19", what is the difference between the average age of a soldier in WW II and one in the Vietnam War?
4. Toto took us all to the dark continent in their hit "Africa." One line runs, "I know that I must do what's right/As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti." In what country would you find Kilimanjaro?
5. The Hooters, in their dark "All You Zombies", sing,"Only Noah saw it coming/Forty days and forty nights/Took his sons and daughters with him/Yeah they were the Israelites." Which of the following was not a son of Noah?
6. In his seminal hit "Sledgehammer", Peter Gabriel sings, "You could have a big dipper/Going up and down, all around the bends." In what constellation would you find the Big Dipper?
7. After Don Henley escaped the Eagles, he sang "Boys of Summer", which included these lyrics: "I can see you/Your brown skin shinin' in the sun/You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby." What are Wayfarers?
8. When Elton John sang, "Goodbye Norma Jean/Though I never knew you at all/You had the grace to hold yourself/While those around you crawled," we knew he was singing about Norma Jean Baker aka Marilyn Monroe. But Baker was her mother's name; what is the last name that appears on Monroe's birth certificate?
9. Nick Lowe said you had to be "Cruel to Be Kind", and some of the lyrics go like this: "You say you're love is bona fide,/But that don't coincide with the things that you do." What does the Latin term Bona fide mean?
10. The "Down Under" group Men at Work sang, "Buying bread from a man in Brussels/He was six foot four and full of muscles/I said, 'Do you speak-a my language?'/He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich." What is the main ingredient in Vegemite and who produces it?
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